Word: staid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bare bone of Beckmann's message is that fame, money and the love of women are not all they are said to be, but the strange, staid-looking conviction with which Beckmann invests his personages carries his painting beyond moralizing to something like magical invocation, a raising of the worst noonday ghosts of the '30s. He was certainly one of the great fabulists of modern art. But unlike the surrealists, he was not content with the effort to tap into a collective unconscious through the littered cellar of the individual self. And unlike lesser but more popular artists like Marc...
Albert Nipon, then a manufacturer of staid maternity clothes, became the talk of the fashion world in the early 1970s when he introduced a line of ultra-feminine dresses. When the fashions appeared, everyone else was selling sportswear and jeans, but the carefully tailored garments were quickly snapped up by Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and other tony department stores. The onetime Du Pont accountant was on his way. Sales of Nipon's dresses (price: $100 to $2,000) this year are expected to reach $60 million, and he has collected a clutch of celebrity customers, including Mary Tyler...
...editor of the Sunday Times of London for 14 years, Harold Evans was known for his emphasis on crusading reporting and crisp graphics. In 1981 he brought his lively talents to the paper's staid daily sister, the Times, which he edited for a year before being ousted in a dispute with Rupert Murdoch. Now Evans' English eye will be tested at a very American publication: Mortimer Zuckerman, who last month paid $176.3 million for U.S. News and World Report (circ. 2,050,000), has announced that he is giving Evans, 56, the nebulous job of "editorial director...
...staid British publishers of Jane's Fighting Ships have added a new and somewhat ominous catalog to their authoritative line of reference books: Jane's Spaceflight Directory. Explains Editor Reginald Turnill: "The sort of superpower pushing and shoving that we are familiar with down on earth is moving into space." The directory, released last week, claims that the Pentagon has, for some time, been training "a new breed of military astronauts." It also mentions reports-officially discounted by both sides- that the Soviets have already practiced "blinding" U.S. satellites with laser beams...
...brought wit, intelligence and self-effacing humor to auto advertising, up to then dour and staid. One featured the line "Think small," which was heresy in the days when Detroit was building gigantic gas guzzlers. Another showed a VW partially submerged in water, and proud owners began to brag, "It floats." In 1969, in celebration of the first U.S. manned moon landing, VW ran a picture of the lunar-excursion module with the caption: "It's ugly, but it gets you there...